Saturday, August 18, 2012

‘I AM' is not Self and Self is not 'I AM'

Without overcoming the ignorance
one is in the grip of form, time and space.If self is in the grip of form, time and space, the duality will prevail
as reality.If duality prevails as
reality the ignorance prevails.If
ignorance prevails the wisdom will not dawn.Without wisdom detachment to attachment is impossibility. Liberation from
experiencing duality as reality is absolutely impossible without Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

When one realizes the self is
not ‘I’ or ‘I am’ but the self is the
formless substance and witness of the ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ , he is freed from the
attachment to result and then what ever he does it detached work. Similarly,
when he recognizes that consciousness is everywhere and in everything in all
the three states than that very recognition leads to a total dissolution of the
ignorance and leads to self-awareness.

What is required is only nondual
wisdom. All else follow. Without Self- Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana self-awareness is impossible. he feels he is the
doer because of ignorance. The doer ship and doing belongs to
individuality. Individuality is falsehood from the ultimate standpoint because
the self is not an individual entity; it pervades the whole of the illusion,
which is in the form of the universe. universe appears as waking or dream(duality) and disappears as deep sleep(non-duality).

Self is nothing more than a mental idea within the falsehood, how can
one surrender to his own mental idea, as surrender itself means dropping of the
inborn conditioning or samskara of ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ by realizing ‘I’ or I AM’ is
not the self but the self is the soul. the soul is in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is the formless substance and witness of the ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ is the
true self. 'I' or 'I AM' is inborn conditioning or samskara.‘I AM' is not Self and Self is not 'I AM'. 'I AM' is bound by form, time
and space. Without the form, time and space 'I AM' cease to exist. Holding ' I
Am as Self one remains in clutches of duality. When there is duality than there
is ignorance. Ignorance is cause of experiencing the duality (illusion) as
reality. The person who identifies Self as 'I AM' will not be able to cross the
threshold of duality. There is no point in saying 'I AM' this or 'I AM THAT'
because the 'self' is that which witness the 'I AM' and the world together
without the physical apparatus.Nothing works unless one knows the true self is not the
form but formless consciousness. Once one knows the formless true self as it is,
everything naturally falls in place. When one knows the formless true self,
then he is free and automatically detached mentally from illusion, because there
remains no second thing other than consciousness to get attached.

Self is the “Soul”. The soul is in the form of
consciousness. The consciousness pervades in everything and everywhere in all
the three states. Consciousness is essentially the Self Luminous in everything
that exists in waking or dream because the consciousness is the formless
substance and witness of the three states.

The consciousness is
the cause of everything that exists and it itself is uncaused. The self is the
soul. The Soul is in the form of
consciousness. Thus consciousness is
ultimate truth or Brahman, knowing which one is free from experiencing the
duality as reality.